Update: I was unfortunately not aware of Shamus Young's severe criticism of Fallout 3 available here to link in the original piece and I regret that. It dovetails rather nicely with what I've written and it's much better executed than my piece. I strongly recommend anyone...

Congratulations, you’ve shot your way to Turok, the only futuristic dinosaur shooter on the planet!

You like killing big things with small weapons. You like spaceships and dinosaurs. You get pissed off when people are scared of brontosauruses since they are, you tell everyone loudly, vegetarians. You knew about velociraptors before Jurassic Park. You’re allergic to poison ivy. You’re also allergic to calamine lotion. Nailed it, right? We thought so.

Turok’s blend of stealth and action and its clever animal and human A.I. looked good at E3. When it comes in, it might be under the radar. Way under the radar. Like, creeping through the underbrush with a knife stalking a dinosaur. Who’s the dinosaur in this metaphor? Could it be Halo 3? Nah . . .